He Conducted Me Into A Court, At
The Door Of Which He Stationed A Man With A Stick In His Hand To
Keep Off The Mob, And Then Showed Me A Large Hut In Which I Was To
Lodge.
I had scarcely seated myself in this spacious apartment when
the mob entered; it was found impossible to keep them out, and I was
surrounded by as many as the hut could contain.
When the first
party, however, had seen me, and asked a few questions, they retired
to make room for another company; and in this manner the hut was
filled and emptied thirteen different times.
A little before sunset the king sent to inform me that he was at
leisure, and wished to see me. I followed the messenger through a
number of courts surrounded with high walls, where I observed plenty
of dry grass, bundled up like hay, to fodder the horses, in case the
town should be invested. On entering the court in which the king
was sitting I was astonished at the number of his attendants, and at
the good order that seemed to prevail among them; they were all
seated - the fighting men on the king's right hand and the women and
children on the left, leaving a space between them for my passage.
The king, whose name was Daisy Koorabarri, was not to be
distinguished from his subjects by any superiority in point of
dress; a bank of earth, about two feet high, upon which was spread a
leopard's skin, constituted the only mark of royal dignity.
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